Ripper Street

Haunted by the failure to catch London’s most evil killer, Jack the Ripper, Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) now heads up the notorious H Division – the toughest police district in the East End. Charged with keeping order in the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel, Reid and his men find themselves fighting to uphold justice and the rule of law; but always in the background lurks the fear of the Ripper.

The shadow of the Ripper is still felt in the neighbourhood by the vigilantes, the sensation-seeking newspaper hacks, and the men who hunted – and failed to find – the murderer. It seems that even though the killer has disappeared, there are plenty more willing to stain the streets of Whitechapel with their victim’s blood…

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Ripper Street Series 1

Ripper Street Series 1

April 1889 – six months since the last Jack the Ripper killing, East London is emerging into a fragile peace, hopeful that this killer’s reign of terror might at last have run its course.

Four years have passed, time that has seen Reid, Drake and Jackson split and isolated from one another. But then the robbery of a goods train leads to a cataclysmic locomotive disaster on Leman Street.